Distribution method - could there be a better way?
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sun Nov 21 03:27:16 UTC 2004
On Saturday 20 November 2004 15:49, Tom and Esther Ward wrote:
> Another point for having physical media is installing Fedora on more than
I actually did install a very basic set of FC3 beta on a Pentium II directly
off the Internet.
I don't recommend istalling off diaup (which is what I did, with four-hour
session limits).
I configured an Apache virtual host, fedora.demo.lan.
I configured Apache to proxy this domain from an Australian mirror.
I installed from Fedora.demo.lan.
Anaconda does not cope well with failed network links, so ach time my Internet
connexion failed I had to restart the install.
Because the files already installed were cached, catching up was quick: the
first part runs at LAN speed.
If you have a broadband connexion this is arguably better than installing from
media: you have all he benefits of being able to install lots of boxes off
you LAN without needing to download 2.1 Gb or so of ISO images.
Then, iof you';re so inclined, you can roll your own CD or DVD with just your
selection: the files you need are listed in the Apache log.
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Cheers
John
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